And way slower. In Australia (where the car the SS is based off is extremely common), faster Audis smoke Commodore SSVs all day long. The advantage that torque-vectored AWD offers, especially in corners, simply cannot be underestimated.

Audi driver here. I’d be offended, were it not for the fact that the world actually does revolve around me.

Got stuck in this situation the other day; some guy merging onto a 60mph freeway at less than 20. Ended up shifting into the far lane as fast as I could, downshifting to second and winding up the turbo to get up to speed before someone rear-ended me.

Loves throwing innocent refugees into gulags, not allowing young people to drive safe and/or fun cars, handing all my damn tax money to mining corporations and giving me speeding tickets.

Law student here. This is my life plan.

Haha, forgot about Britain’s national brainfart. Good point.

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A million pounds is over 1.5m USD. There’s a decent number of F40 parts floating around (not a heap, but also not none), and a lot of the bodywork and interior stuff can be reproduced without massive cost. The major hurdle is how much of the chassis you can salvage; depending on how badly-warped it is, it may be a…

6 teenage DPS are known as ‘squishing practice’ when you’re a Reinhardt main.

The resale value of a restored F40 will likely exceed the cost of rebuilding it by a substantial margin. It wouldn’t surprise me to see this on the road again. They’re worth well over a million pounds in perfect condition.

Massive production costs, mostly. Australia, for all its faults, has a very much liveable minimum wage. They weren’t making anything resembling a profit on locally-built cars and haven’t been for ages. Commodores are built for, mostly, working-class folks; to make a profit, you’d need to be charging Audi prices. The…

IT WAS THE MONARO MATE

People who drive HSVs in this country don’t do that. They’re not rich businessmen or investors.

Australian here.

As someone who owns the B6 (2003-vintage) version of this car -

Having been in an RS7 with their twin-turbo V8, you wouldn’t want a manual in it (and I say that as a hardline manual purist). No human can change gears as fast as that thing revs. It goes from 2,000 to 6,000 in fourth the way most cars do in first. You’d spend more time clutched in than you would with the power on.

Lost it at ‘lifetime supply of rosé’. You’re quickly turning out to be one of Jalopnik’s best writers, Kristen. Bravo!

It’s a Chevy product. Well-built my ass. The interiors on low-end Chevys feel like they belong on a 2014-vintage Hyundai.

Also mean:

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